These steroid hormones increase appetite and, unlike CRH, remain in the bloodstream for a prolonged period of time, often resulting in hyperphagia.
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Additionally, studies in mice have shown that haploinsufficieny of Sim1 causes obesity that is due to hyperphagia and do not respond properly to increased dietary fat.
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It has been demonstrated that modulating Sim1 levels postnatally also leads to hyperphagia and obesity, suggesting a physiological role for Sim1 separate from its role in development.
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People with Prader Willi syndrome have high ghrelin levels, which are thought to directly contribute to the increased appetite, hyperphagia, and obesity seen in this syndrome.
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Feeding behaviors in children with ONH often include hyperphagia ( overeating ), resulting in obesity; or hypophagia ( reduced food intake ) with or without weight loss.
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In animals it produces effects including hyperphagia, hyperactivity, and anxiolysis, of which are all likely mediated predominantly or fully by blockade of the 5-HT 2C receptor.
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More aspects seen in a clinical overview include hypotonia and abnormal neurologic function, hypogonadism, developmental and cognitive delays, hyperphagia and obesity, short stature, and behavioral and psychiatric disturbances.
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Case # 1 : A 30-year-old, right-handed man was admitted to the department of neurology for irritability, inappropriate behavior, and morbid hyperphagia with obesity.
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PWS is frequently found to be the reason for secondary obesity due to early onset hyperphagia-the abnormal increase in appetite for consumption of food . There are known three molecular causes of Prader Willi syndrome development.
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These two types of cells are neuropeptide Y ( NPY )-expressing cells, which cause hyperphagia and energy conservation, and cells that pro-opiomelanocortin ( POMC ), which are related to hypophagia and increased energy expenditure.
